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joechung

Developer Rorschach, haha, excellent!

Windows 7 sensors. I'm just waiting for the smorgasbord of USB and wireless sensor gadgets to inundate us. Smiley

gbrayut

Scott Hanselman list looks pretty cool. Here are the links for the other two programs mentioned in the show:

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

aL_
Rx ftw

welcome back dan! good to hear poopage is progressing as planned Smiley

(welcome back brian too, but you havent been gone as long Wink )

sensor platform is awsome, too bad there arent that many devices out there yet though.. do you know if there is a way to write a managed wrapper of a sensor and have sensor platfrom use that? if not, do you know of any good tutorials on how to write a sensor driver from scratch? file > new to driver visible in win7 i mean..

in anycase, there needs to be a wiimote driver for sensor platform Smiley

--edit--

family guy ftw

(warning, childish, hilarious)

exoteric
I : Next<I>

Many people don't get Dynamic, and what they don't get, they don't want. Some not only don't get it, they see it as a way to circumvent the type system and so hate it. As Anders says - if you don't have the types in the first place, why should you have to have ugly syntax just because the compiler doesn't have the types.

Many others (at least used to) think that C# is just Java rehashed (I still hear this today from some people), in a way it was, but any new language is a rehash of something else. But they're not the same. They have very different generics, different ways of dealing with primitive types vs reference types. Java generics is compiled with type-erasure. Etc., etc., etc. That these differences are constantly glazed over is just annoying.

Now, with LINQ, Lambda expressions, Dynamic, etc., we're getting much more detached. And indeed we see Java copying C# & co. Mutually recursive development, the way it should be (don't really like the word "innovation").

wisnia
Tomasz Wisniewski

In reply to gbrayut

#Sep 4th @ 5:13 PM

Great show guys! Good to se you both back (although the crew filling in for you was awesome Wink ).

As for Synergy goes it’s a great piece of software. I’ve been using it for couple of years now. Unfortunately it’s has been out of development for some time now Sad I also have one issue with it. When I’m using it at home with my PC (which has XP SP3) and my Laptop (which has Windows 7) I have to turn of UAC on my laptop, otherwise it won’t work Sad

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to wisnia

#Sep 5th @ 4:14 AM

Brian: what's with the hat? Sunburnt head? Ill advised holiday haircut?

Thanks for the inSSIDer tip -- I am now interference free!

Herbie

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Still can't download any of the WMV's...

Anyway, welcome back Dan!

Dan

In reply to gbrayut

#Sep 4th @ 5:13 PM

Thanks for including the links, I forgot to include them!

Edit - Here's the projects that inSSIDer is built on

Wifi Scanner - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/gadgets/WifiScanner.aspx

Managed Wifi library - http://www.codeplex.com/managedwifi

Dan

In reply to aL_

#Sep 4th @ 5:29 PM

I'm emailing Yochay Kiriaty, our Windows 7 guru to see if there's a definitive list of sensors that work on Windows 7 and the recommended tutorials for writing one. As for a Wiimote driver, I know Brian Peek is looking at that Smiley